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The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Workshop Summary

The Continuing Epidemiological Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Workshop Summary

National Research Council
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Committee on Population

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0309266483
ISBN13: 9780309266482
Publisher: Natl Academy Pr
Published: Nov 1 2012
Pages: 47
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.20 Width: 8.30 Depth: 10.80
Language: English

Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis, and, more recently, HIV being among the most prominent contributors to that burden. Yet in most parts of Africa-and especially in those areas with the greatest health care needs-the data available to health planners to better understand and address these problems are extremely limited. The vast majority of Africans are born and will die without being recorded in any document or spearing in official statistics. With few exceptions, African countries have no civil registration systems in place and hence are unable to continuously generate vital statistics or to provide systematic information on patterns of cause of death, relying instead on periodic household-level surveys or intense and continuous monitoring of small demographic surveillance sites to provide a partial epidemiological and demographic profile of the population.

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